Control Quote by Heather Cox Richardson

At the turn of the last century, extremists were forced back to the political fringes while younger politicians resurrected the vitality of the original…

— Heather Cox Richardson

The history of the modern Republican Party is the story of moderates being driven out and conservatives taking over - and then of those…

— Max Boot

Only a few years after building a federal system that cleared the way for equal opportunity, Republicans faced a racist and xenophobic backlash against…

— Heather Cox Richardson

“As the nation divided into Federalists and Republicans, each group called the other the worst name possible: "party". Most Americans feared the idea of…

— R.B. Bernstein

The impulse to scapegoat and belittle threatens to turn us into a fearful, backward-looking people. In the case of the Republican Party, those things…

— Jeff Flake

As social values shifted through the '80s and '90s, as modern conservatism rose to power, and as the electorate became a good deal more…

— Ted Nordhaus

The Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult,…

— Mike Lofgren

Traditional Republicanism grew up in the 1850s as opposed to the Democrats, who always saw the world kind of as a 'us vs. them'…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Once the religious right got their beachhead in the Republican Party in 1980, they expanded it. Even Barry Goldwater was extremely hostile to the…

— Richard Painter

The old-school GOP that championed limited government, fiscal restraint, and the defense of the ideals of democracy at home and abroad was far from…

— Jonathan Capehart

Our leaders ranged from bad to extraordinary. But through it all, the GOP was the one party even vaguely amenable to limited-government conservatism, to…

— Rick Wilson

Three times before, in the 1850s, the 1890s, and the 1920s, oligarchs took over the American government and threatened to destroy democracy. In each…

— Heather Cox Richardson